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  —Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes

  PRAISE FOR PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

  “Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing. . . . Her thrillers take us into ourselves, not out of ourselves, and lead us to pleasures we hate to admit to. . . . Highsmith’s books are the queasiest fun imaginable.”

  —Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker

  “A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental. . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any recourse to supernatural machinery.”

  —John Gross, New York Times Book Review

  “The feeling of menace behind most Highsmith novels, the sense that ideas and attitudes alien to the reasonable everyday ordering of society are being suggested, has made many readers uneasy. One closes most of her books . . . with a feeling that the world is more dangerous than one had imagined.”

  —Julian Symons, New York Times Book Review

  “An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there’s nothing quite like it.”

  —Boston Globe

  “Mesmerizing. . . . Not to be recommended for the weak-minded and impressionable.”

  —Washington Post Book World

  ALSO BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

  The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

  A Suspension of Mercy

  The Blunderer

  People Who Knock on the Door

  The Glass Cell

  Deep Water

  This Sweet Sickness

  A Dog’s Ransom

  Small g: A Summer Idyll

  Little Tales of Misogyny

  The Animal-Lover’s Guide to Beastly Murder

  Slowly, Slowly in the Wind

  The Black House

  Mermaids on the Golf Course

  Carol

  The Talented Mr. Ripley

  A Game for the Living

  The Cry of the Owl

  The Two Faces of January

  Those Who Walk Away

  The Tremor of Forgery

  Eleven

  Ripley Under Ground

  Ripley’s Game

  Edith’s Diary

  The Boy Who Followed Ripley

  Found in the Street

  Ripley Under Water

  Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes

  The Price of Salt (as Clare Morgan)

  Don’t miss other titles by

  PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

  “Tom Ripley is one of the most interesting characters in world literature.” —Anthony Minghella, director of the 1999 film

  The Talented Mr. Ripley

  “So good and utterly addictive.”

  —Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me

  “Highsmith tracks her characters as they track each other. . . . In her fiction, surveillance and introspection are the same thing.”

  —Terrence Rafferty, The New York

  “Viscerally romantic.”

  —Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker

  Introduction copyright © 2021 by Paula Hawkins

  Copyright 1950 by Patricia Highsmith

  First published as a Norton paperback 2001, reissued with a new introduction 2021

  Originally published in 1950 by Harper & Brothers, New York, and Cresset Press, London

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  ISBN 978-0-393-35193-4 pbk.

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